Headlines for Tuesday Jul. 30, 2013

The SpeedBridge Adapter for PCIe 3.0 reduces time to market and system risk for complex designs by providing high-speed interaction with real-world traffic in a pre-silicon environment running production-level software drivers and an OS.

Headlines for Monday Jul. 29, 2013

Altera today announced the availability of a fully verified EtherCAT protocol IP for Altera FPGAs. This announcement is the latest offering from the collaboration between Altera, EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) and Softing Industrial Automation GmbH.

Headlines for Monday Jul. 22, 2013

ARM today announced it has entered into a multi-year agreement with Oracle to further optimize the existing Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) for ARM® 32-bit platforms and to add Java SE support for ARMv8 64-bit platforms.

Headlines for Friday Jul. 19, 2013

Requirement of TV broadcasting for carrying 4K and ultra-high definition content is now driving the adoption of the HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) standard. This demand for devices supporting HEVC is growing fast, and Allegro DVT is ready with the industry’s first fully compliant HEVC decoding IP that supports both Main and Main10 profiles.

Headlines for Tuesday Jul. 16, 2013

Like everything else in Silicon Valley, PCIe (peripheral component interconnect express) is goin’ mobile (cue up The Who). The big news at the June PCIe Special Interest Group Developers Conference was “mobile express,” M-PCIe.

Headlines for Thursday Jul. 11, 2013

Trusight announced that it has partnered with Vivante Corporation to deliver a streamlined OpenCL and OpenGL ES solution of Trusight’s patented video and CGI (computer generated imagery) processing technology.

Headlines for Wednesday Jul. 10, 2013

There has been a considerable amount of press around recent AnTuTu benchmark results and a recent ABI Research report claiming, "Intel apps processor [the Atom Z2580] outperforms Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Samsung."

Headlines for Tuesday Jul. 09, 2013

Altima Corporation, Northwest Logic, and Meticom announce the immediate availability of a complete MIPI video demonstration system using Altera’s Cyclone IV and V FPGAs. This demonstration system takes an HDMI video stream, processes it in an Altera FPGA and then streams it to a MIPI-compatible display.

Headlines for Monday Jul. 08, 2013

Richard Grisenthwaite, lead processor architect with ARM, has said the company has thought about creating an inexact processor -- a processor that curtails precision to save power. The technique has echoes of fuzzy logic and probabilistic processing and uses reduced accuracy of multiplication and addition but manages the probability of errors building up.

Headlines for Wednesday Jul. 03, 2013

Since 2008, the majority of integrated circuit production has taken place on 300mm wafers. In terms of surface area shipped (i.e., on a normalized 200mm-equivalent wafer basis), 300mm wafers represented 56% of worldwide installed capacity in December 2012